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By Marion

Wed Feb 27 22:34:59 GMT 2008

I would like to know what my father would look like now,he died age 52 and would be 80 years old this may.so would my mother as she still memorises him as he was at 52.i dont have much experience or money but if there is a program i could easely get/use?

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By April Friges

Mon Jun 09 05:00:21 BST 2008

Does anyone realize that we are putting in generic laws to an individual - does anyone consider the circumstances in which the child/missing person remains - overweight/underweight, these are all non-predictive circumstances that even a computer can't identify.

Steve Loftin, head of the forensics imaging unit at the NMCEC states that:

1. Uses pics of parents at around the same age that the child is projected to be is the most useful tool to proper age progression.

A. They also have over 30,000 general references of people at all ages that they use as referenced for hairstyle/clothing

2. THEY use adobe photoshop – this is a completely manual manipulation process – it is not computer generated. €œIT IS A PREDICTION.â€� They do not punch in statistics of the individual and the computer spits out the progressions (does not build the face) – this is all subjective.

A. This is a subjective process based on heredity – and they have to predict these characteristics – it is based through the eyes of the artist. Steve agrees that if you give 3 different forensic artists an image – you will get 3 different results.

4. And so my final question to steve is: how many people are found because of this age progressed photos? Steve’s response is that they do not keep the statistics because there is no way of knowing. In most cases the parents will not give feedback – the parents do not give permission to see the child’s current photograph to compare with because they just want to move on with life and not subject the child to any more media coverage.

A. They also would need another release form from the parents to see these photographs, and most often times the parents re not willing.

I. 4,000 age progressions have been made since 1990

ii. 800 cases where work has been done – there has been recovery.

1. Do not know the circumstances in which these recoveries took place, but do know the circumstances in which the child was abducted

5. Most kids missing today are:

a. Runaways – but these mostly return withing a couple of days or weeks

b. Throwaways – a term used in which the kid is kicked out of the house or emacipated – old enough to be out on their own

c. Non-custodial parental abductions

1. These are the majority of the age progressed images because they have a higher case of recovery – due to knowledge of the abductor

2. Most have been gone for a really long time- NCMEC requires atleast 2 years of missing (enough for the characteristics to change

a. Characteristics in which change 8yrs+ are easiser to gage and don’t need parent’s photos to help

i. 2 people work at the NCMEC that do these age progressions. Both very young (I didn’t ask their names, but Steve gave me their educational backgrounds

ii. Neither are forensics officers

iii. Both graduated with fine arts/graphic design/graphic arts degrees

iv. A generational thing – steve moved out of age progression when computers came along as did most law enforcement officials that are 50+ in age

v. People doing these progressions are following the rules of forensic law enforecement officials, but are purely artists doing the manipulations

d. STANGER ABDUCTIONS = only 2-3% of missing childrens – but this is what we understand because these are highly televised – and se we think that this is a majority of missing children.

6. References that we can not rely on

a. Circumstances in which they are missing

i. Is the child being fed properly

ii. Are they sleeping okay at night

b. These are just a couple of issues that can not be factored into the results of an age progressed photogtaph

i. This is also probably why the child is never overweight or set into some sort of “click� –

1. Can only give generic progression models because specifics are too broad

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By Daniel Rivera

Tue Nov 13 17:03:58 GMT 2007

To whom it may concen:

my name is daniel rivera and i am very intrested in kmowing if this software iis for sale????

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